Verse 682

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चतुर्विधं स्थूलशरीरजातंतद्भोज्यमन्नादि तदाश्रयादि ।ब्रह्माण्डमेतत्सकलं स्थविष्ठ -मीक्षेत पञ्चीकृतभूतमात्रम् ॥ ६८२ ॥

In plain words

The four kinds of gross bodies, the food that feeds them, the places that house them, and this whole cosmic egg in its densest form — see all of it as nothing but the five elements, each compounded of the other five.

Close to the Sanskrit

The fourfold class of gross bodies, their food — grain and the rest — their dwellings and the rest, this entire grossest cosmic egg: one should see it as nothing but the quintuplicated elements.